The American Psychiatric Association (APA) announced that the updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) will be released in March 2022. The DSM-5 was released nine years ago. This update includes clarifying modifications to the criteria sets for more than 70 disorders, including significant updates to descriptive text for 75% of the disorders based on literature reviews, and a comprehensive review of the impact of racism and discrimination on the diagnosis and indicators of mental disorders.

This update also adds the newly recognized “prolonged grief disorder,” restores “unspecified mood disorder,” and adds new symptom codes to indicate the presence or history of suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury. Medication and gender terms are also modernized. The term “intellectual disability” is now “intellectual developmental disorder,” and “conversion disorder” is now “functional neurological symptom disorder.” Coding and coding notes will also be updated. More details and information on how to order the updated DSM-5-TR can be found on the APA Publishing website.